Edward F. Jones

Edward Franc Jones (3 June 1828-14 August 1913) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War and Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1886 to 1891 (succeeding Dennis McCarthy and preceding William F. Sheehan).

Biography
Edward Franc Jones was born in Utica, Oneida County, New York in 1828, and he was educated in Leicester, Massachusetts. He joined the state militia in 1854, and he went on to become colonel of the 6th Massachusetts Militia at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. His regiment was forced to suppress the Baltimore riot of 1861 after Confederate sympathizers attacked the Union soldiers, and, on 24 February 1866, he was breveted a Brigadier-General by President Andrew Johnson. In 1865, he served in the Massachusetts State House, but he moved to Binghamton, New York not long after, serving as its police commissioner and then on the State Board of Equalization before serving as Lieutenant Governor from 1886 to 1891. He died in 1913.